The Mill news

The Mall Charity Cares Thank You!-A big thank you to The Mall, Walthamstow for their support in 2017! We were delighted to be the Mall Cares Charity Partner in 2017. As well as raising over £4000 for our work, The Mall also gave us donations of much-needed equipment, publicity support, raffle prizes, and a new home for The Mill elephant. ...

We’re celebrating Book Giving Day!-14 February 2018 10am - 6pm FREE Celebrate reading with us! We will be giving away free children's books for younger children on Book Giving Day, 14 February 2018. First come, first served. Thank you to the kind donation of books from our friends Child's Play Books and Tidy Books!

Souper Wednesday’s return on 14 February!-Every Wednesday, starting 14 February 2018 12 noon - 2pm Open to everyone, food available until it runs out Soup £3 a bowl; cake of the week £2.50 Volunteer Nat Di Maggio, and his alter ego Big Buddah's Thai Kitchen, will be relaunching our weekly Souper Wednesday on 14 February! Nat will be fresh from ...

The Mill is deeply saddened by the loss of Joyce McQuarrie-We are deeply saddened to hear that Joyce McQuarrie passed away in the new year after a long illness. Joyce was a close friend of The Mill. Along with her husband Jim, she was one of the first people to get involved in bringing the old library building back into community use, as soon as ...

Announcing our exciting new projects to build community skills-With thanks to funding from St James Street Big Local and match funding from The Co-op Local Community Fund we're excited to announce two new projects at The Mill: Grow Your Idea 2 - a community competition to enable six new groups to start at the Mill, whilst supporting existing groups and their leaders. We ...

Share what The Mill means to you!-In 2018, we will have a new website, you might have noticed some changes already. Our aim for the site is for visitors to get a real feel of what The Mill is all about, one way will be to have lots of photographs. Please help us by putting up your shots of what The Mill ...

Christmas and New Year Closing-The Mill will closed for Christmas and New Year holidays on Wednesday, 20 December 2017 at 6pm, the Knitting Group will meet as normal that evening. We will reopen on Thursday, 4 January 2018 at our usual opening time of 9.30am. We would like to thank all our supporters in 2017 and wish you ...

Thank you to Co-operative Members for your support!-A big thank you to all the The Co-operative Members whose support helped raise £6001 for The Mill through the Local Community Fund! The Mill Trustee Alison Griffin collected the cheque last week from the staff at Higham Hill Coop.

Our annual Halloween Party was a roaring success!-A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween event. It was very busy, and we hope you will agree, lots of fun! We raised over £400.00 for The Mill! Thank you to our volunteers who helped make the day spooktacular! There are more fantastic pictures on our Facebook page.

Thank you for growing your tenners!-Huge thank you to everyone who donated to The Mill during our week long campaign! Localgiving, an online donations site, gave us the opportunity to take part in this exciting campaign. For every £10 or more that was donated to us, Localgiving match funded up to £10. We raised an impressive £355! If you'd like ...

Souper Wednesday’s is going weekly!-Every Wednesday 25 October - 29 November 2017 12 noon-3pm £2.50 per bowl with bread Come early before it runs out! Souper Wednesday's is going weekly! Due to popular demand, Nat Di Maggio, or his alter ego Big Buddah's Thai Kitchen, will be running his Souper Wednesdays every Wednesday from 25 October to 29 November ...

Meet George the Chameleon-Thank you for all the suggestions to name the new resident of our Children's Room. The name picked out of the hat on Apple Day for our beautiful, gloriously coloured Chameleon is George! George was made over one weekend in the Summer holidays by about 50 children, parents and carers. Vanessa Brightwell, artist, designer and ...

We can double your donation this week-As a local, community-led, charity fundraising and donations help to keep The Mill running. There’s never been a better time to give. We’re taking part in a Localgiving’s Grow your tenner campaign. So for every £10 donation we get an extra £10 in match funding. If you add Gift Aid your £10 grows to £22.50. ...

Sharon Page our new Chair of Trustees-We're delighted to announce that Sharon Page is our new Chair of Trustees. Sharon has been a Mill Trustee for nearly two years, and was instrumental in getting the agreement for our new lease with Waltham Forest Council. Everyone at The Mill welcomes her to her new role and we are looking forward to her ...

Comms Boot Camp for 16 – 22 year olds-18 - 19 November 2017 9:30am - 2:30pm Free Interested in a career in Comms? Want to work for charities and social action? Join us at The Mill for a weekend Boot Camp for young people aged 16-22 who are interested in working in communications. The Boot Camp is your opportunity to learn new skills ...

Give £10 to The Mill and we get double!-We rely on fundraising and donations to keep The Mill open; from covering the day to day running and maintenance of the building to providing ongoing support to our team of volunteers, who make The Mill possible. There’s never been a better time to give. We’re taking part in a Localgiving’s Grow your Tenner campaign from the ...

Souper Wednesday-Last Wednesday of month, starting 27 September 2017 Living Room 12.00-3.00pm £2.50 Bowl of soup and bread Open to everyone, soup available until it runs out. One of our talented volunteers, Nat Di Maggio and his alter ego Big Buddah's Thai Kitchen will be launching our monthly Souper Wednesday. On the last Wednesday of the month ...

We are Local Sustainable Heroes!-The Mill has been awarded the accolade of Local Sustainable Hero Award 2017 from ItDoesTheJob.com, an online department store online products that help reduce energy consumption. We received a certificate and a voucher for tea for two at the Wild Goose Bakery in Leytonstone High Road E11. Although there was stiff competition we won with our ...

Junior Art Club returns for Autumn 2017-Junior Art Club returns for Autumn 2017 Thursday afternoons, beginning 14 September 2017, 4 - 5pm Five sessions £2 per session per child Children aged 6+, under 8s must be accompanied Join David and the team for the Junior Art Club, five weekly sessions on Thursday afternoons. We will begin by working with clay and ...

Saturday Kids Art-Saturday Kids Art Saturday mornings, beginning 16 September 2017, 10am - 12pm. £3 per session. Primary school-age children from 8 to 11 years old. Do you want to have fun making art with plenty of activities like; painting, drawing, designing and working with clay, then come along! Run by David a very experienced art teacher. ...